A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Thursday:
ENGLAND
Boreham Wood, a fifth-tier club and comfortably the lowest-ranked team left in the FA Cup, looks to cause a major shock when it visits Everton in the fifth round. The non-league club from a London commuter town has already won four matches to reach to this stage — the furthest in its history — but faces its toughest test yet, even if Everton is struggling in the Premier League and recently changed managers to bring in Frank Lampard. Everton has lost three of its four league games since Lampard's arrival and is in a relegation fight. Boreham Wood is fourth in its league as the club looks to get promoted into the English Football League for the first time. Seventy-nine places separate the teams heading into the match at Goodison Park.
SPAIN
Real Betis hosts Rayo Vallecano looking to return to the Copa del Rey final for the first time since 2005, when it won its last major trophy. Betis came from behind to win the first leg 2-1 in Madrid. Rayo is playing in the Copa semifinals for the first time since 1982 and is trying to reach the final for the first time. Rayo had a good start to its season but has lost five straight games in all competitions going into Thursday's match. Betis has been revamped since the arrival of veteran Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini in 2020. It sits third in the Spanish league and is enjoying one of its best seasons in several years.
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